Donovan Quotes

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I've been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot, and I just can't use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

Whenever I'm making songs, I am pretty much, quote unquote, freestyling them into existence.

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.

I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes it lasts all day.